June 28th
Good morning!
Welcome to Issue 65.1 of Digestable, your thrice-weekly mouthful of real things happening in the world, minus alarmist pandemic news.
Today’s news, fermented:
Everyone’s a busy bee, so no Second Look or ~*Hot Goss*~ today; just me pointing you towards a few Monday reads.
It’s cool to be alive in an age of democratizing media. Anyone can make a podcast or write a newsletter, and readers/listeners have so much choice about where they get information.
Of course, the all-knowing algorithm often directs us to or from news, but if you decide to seek out media by people you actually trust and want to hear from, you’ll find it.
I know that some days, Digestable links are heavy on the Guardian or the Nation or another outlet on my short list of what-to-look-at-first. But generally, I try to read from a broad range of sources in the little anti-algorithmic exercise that is this newsletter.
So today: a few newsletters I often turn to.
Popular Information: an investigative journalism powerhouse that often backs corporations and politicians into corners they can’t just talk their way out of. Today’s issue, 1 truth and 3 lies about Critical Race Theory, digs into how the American right are trying to gut this academic field and turn it into a fear-mongering tool with which to shore up white supremacy.
Data for Progress: per the Twitter name of one of its staff, DfP is a ‘left-leaning but high-quality polling outlet’ that pulled the most accurate numbers for last week’s primary in New York. Their most recent newsletter covers NY elections, a fun memo about ocean infrastructure (!).
ExxonKnews: big points for the word play here, which refers to ExxonKnew, the website/project I always link to when talking about how the fossil fuel industry knowingly caused the climate crisis. Their recent issue covers the latest in industry liability lawsuits, looks at what fossil fuel execs were doing at the White house, and has a shout out of a podcast you may have heard.
Happy newslettering! Here’s some propaganda I can really get behind:
